Unfinished Business by Isabelle Drake

Author:Isabelle Drake [Drake, Isabelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
Publisher: Totally Bound Publishing
Published: 2014-08-16T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

Give Him What He Wants, Maybe

Saturday night, I’m at my place, on the couch with Nick and I’m so tense I could snap.

“Really, Nick, you do not want to go. It’s an April Fool’s Day Dance on April twenty-first. What does that tell you?” I wave my hands. “That you don’t want to go.”

Nick nudges me with his foot. “I want to meet your parents. I want to see all the people you’re always complaining about.”

I groan and put my hands on my head. Why doesn’t he let this whole thing go and grab me the way he did the other night? What is keeping him from kissing me? Didn’t he like it? Doesn’t he know that I did?

“Are you taking another video guy?”

My nervousness spills out as a laugh then I fall silent when I see the way he’s looking at me with his eyes all dark and serious.

“Shall I take that as a no?” he asks, crossing one leg over the other and still staring at me.

“Definitely. No way.”

“I’m glad he’s a no. What should I wear?”

“Nothing.”

“Okay but I would’ve thought you’d want me to blend in.”

The image of his hard dick is followed by one of his bare chest. Before I make a fool of myself by jumping on him, I banish it. He starts rubbing my shoulders and I lean back into the circular motion of his warm, strong hands. Yes, he makes me feel good in ways I never have. But I can’t take chances. “You aren’t going,” I say.

“Give me a good reason.”

With no convincing lies handy, I offer part of the truth. “I’m afraid if you go, you won’t want to be my friend anymore. It’ll be like peeking behind the curtain and realizing that I’m all bells and whistles.”

“Are you trying to tell me you’re a short, bald man wearing a bright green suit and top hat?”

No. I am, like every girl looking to find herself, Dorothy. And until I do get myself together there is no way I can take Nick anywhere near my hometown.

He sighs and pushes himself upright. “Really, Hayley. What’s the big deal?”

Before I can come up with a reply to that, my phone vibrates. I tumble off the couch to get it. There is a ruckus in the background. When my mom finally gets to me, she’s laughing and having a grand time—on a Saturday night no less.

“Hey, Mom.”

“I just wanted to tell you, before you even ask,” my mom is saying, “he won’t be at the dance on Saturday.”

I glance at Nick and he’s smiling. My heart does a hard flip as I try to tell if he can hear what she’s saying. I lean back, hoping to put more distance between my mom’s words and Nick’s ears.

“None of the Walkers will be there. I checked. I figured you’d want to know. So it’s all settled.”

Oh no, it isn’t. It hasn’t been settled now, even after almost a year, and it isn’t ever going to be settled unless I take care of that one last thing.

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